Environmental & Safety Issues: Minimizing Hazardous Waste Liability : It has everything to do with Planning, Process and Control

When reviewing the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) enforcement history, properly managing hazardous waste continues to be an area of great interest. A recent example occurred on August 5, 2002. Fifteen businesses and public entities in Downers Grove, Ill., were told, via a USEPA letter, that they might be at least partly liable for groundwater contamination in an unincorporated area near the Ellsworth Industrial Park.